MOSCOW, August 25 Nine cultural heritage sites will be restored in Moscow, including the bronze monument to Nadezhda Krupskaya, the bust of Mikhail Kutuzov and the granite bust of Nikolai Zhukovsky, he said on his page on VKontakte, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
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“We will restore nine objects of cultural heritage: monuments, sculptures and other works of monumental art,” he said.
Sobyanin noted that six of which are located in the central regions. Among them are the marble sculpture «The Abduction of Proserpina» in Bolshoi Afanasevsky Lane, created at the beginning of the 19th century by Paolo Triscorni, the bronze bust of Mikhail Frunze on Suvorovskaya Square by Yevgeny Vuchetich and Grigory Zakharov.
According to Sobyanin, two monuments awaiting restoration are located on Leningradsky Prospekt: a granite bust of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky by Sergei Merkurov and Isidor Frantsuz and a granite bust of Nikolai Zhukovsky by Georgy Neroda.
Also, the ninth object was installed on Kutuzovsky Prospekt — a bronze bust of Mikhail Kutuzov, created by sculptor Nikolai Tomsky and architect Lev Golubovsky.